Openbox
Openbox is a minimalistic, highly configurable window manager. Since it supports the latest freedesktop.org standards and previous standards, it lets you use the latest applications (which may have been intended for use with GNOME or KDE) without a full desktop environment.
| Tags | Desktop Environment GNOME KDE Window Manager Blackbox |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL BSD Original |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 01 Aug 2011 21:34
Release Notes: This release adds a new focus cycling dialog, menu icons, and fixes many bugs.
- 14 May 2010 22:02
Release Notes: This release fixes a crash when pressing right in the menu when nothing was selected. It has some translation updates.
- 15 Apr 2010 18:16
Release Notes: Some minor bugs and rare crashes have been fixed. The default submenu delay has been lowered to 100 milliseconds.
- 30 Jan 2010 12:59
Release Notes: This is a minor bugfix and new features release, mostly focused on Openbox menu behaviours.
- 18 Dec 2009 23:34
Release Notes: This release is expected to be the last of the 3.4 series and has various small tweaks and bugfixes.
Recent comments
After years of window manager griping, I can stop whining
I have been complaining ever since GNOME 2.0, when at least for a while it seemed that metacity was the only window manager that worked well with GNOME 2.0 and my old standby, sawfish, definitely didn't. I'm finally satisfied.
As of this writing, my only complaint would be the fact that obconf does not (yet?) cover keybindings, but the XML config file is quite easy to edit by hand and it took me only a few minutes to get the configuration I wanted, overcoming my frustration with metacity's limited configuration options.
Heartbeat
- Popularity Score
- 220.54
- Vitality Score
- 16.47
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- 83
